The family business with a personal touch...

For over 40 years Pentland Plants have been growing plants and expanding our garden centre just south of Edinburgh. We are a family run business which we think gives us a more personal touch than some of the larger chains.

We grow all our own bedding and basket plants so noone can beat us for quality, value and choice of varieties as we produce over 50 million on our nurseries each year! We also visit Europe regularly throughout the year to source the best quality and value in outdoor plants to offer you.

We have 3 seed sowing machines two Hamiltons and this Blackmore which are all ideal for high speed, accurate sowing.

Our high tech glasshouses are climate controlled by our Hoogendorn system with screens to keep the heat in at night or the strong sun off the plant during the days.

All our trays are fully gapped up making mechanical transplanting quick and easy. Orders are collected from the benches and taken to dispatch. Our Computer system tracks each tray so we can find them when the are ready.

Depending on the size of the order we can pack plug trays in boxes to be sent by overnight carrier, or for larger quantities, on trolleys, or stillages in our own transport.

We produce over 50 million plants each year but hope we still have the personal touch and keep in touch with customers throughout the busy season.

When the bedding season is quiet we keep busy by growing a crop of up to 120,000 Poinsettias, quite a change from plugs!

Plants Trials

Each year we hold our own internal trials to help us compare old and new varieties and help us decide what will make it into our catalogue the following year.